The literature dealing with the factors that determine approach and avoidance responses to
novelty is reviewed and evaluated and suggestions for further clarifying research are …

Reviews literature published since 1970 on the importance of early experience in
psychological development. Four main sources of research are considered: work that denies …

Activities that engage young children with the sensory properties of foods are popular with
nursery schools, despite the lack of evidence for their efficacy in increasing children's …

Previous studies have shown that interaction of an observer rat with a previously fed
conspecific demonstrator enhances the observer's subsequent preference for the diet its …

Tolman distinguished two kinds of learning: Field expectancies or cognitions are acquired in
Pavlov's CS-US and Thorndike's R-US paradigms, wherein animals “map” the …

Three experiments were carried out to investigate the social transmission of food-related
information in adult rats. Experiment 1 showed that when one member of a group of rats (the …

Commercial interventions seeking to promote fruit and vegetable consumption by
encouraging preschool-and school-aged children to engage with foods with 'all their senses' …

Previous studies in our laboratory have demonstrated that a naive rat (an observer), after
interacting briefly with a previously fed conspecific (a demonstrator), will exhibit an …

Experiments were conducted to investigate the communication and social learning of food
preferences via excretory marking amoungst adult male Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus. In …

A novel procedure for enhancing voluntary intake of ethanol in periadolescent rats is
described. The procedure is a modification of Galef et al.'s (eg, Galef, Kennett, & Stein, 1985; …